The best of YouTube: #37

80's metal, The Blues Brothers and a Tenori-on

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What do you get if you cross the ultimate 80's metal show band, an attractive lady playing a Tenori-on and Aretha Franklin being very persuasive in an all-American cafe? This week's best of YouTube, of course. What's not to love?

Michael Leonard's choices

Farewell, John 'Mitch' MitchellI'm not a big fan of drum solos, but this warrants an airing this week. Here's the late Mitch Mitchell with The Jimi Hendrix Experience, 1969. Note his left hand 'jazz grip'. Great drummer. That's all. ML

Slipknot's 'guitar cam'Slipknot's Mick Thompson makes a huge noise, but will aspiring shredders be impressed to see up-close how he plays People=Shit? Question: is this harder or easier than it looks? ML

Chris Vinnicombe's choices

Shellac - Steady As She GoesI'm going for abrasive and aggressive this week, and Steve Albini and chums are certainly rather expert in that area. Several thousand miles from Illinois, Cardiff's Future Of The Left are rising stars of skewed, ferocious rock music. In a previous life, two of the trio featured in McLusky, a band produced by Albini who were responsible for some of the sweatiest and most fearsome live performances I've ever witnessed. Like that? Here's some more. CV

Two Gallants perform Waves Of Grain liveLess immediately visceral but no less intense are San Francisco blues-folk duo Two Gallants. This epic is the finale of their second LP, What The Toll Tells, and for us it cements frontman Adam Stephens's status as one of the finest lyricists of the age. Drummer Tyson Vogel is one hell of a sticksman too. CV

Joe Bosso's choices

Stuart rocks out to The Killers V-DrumsStuart is a drummer long on skill but short on apartment space. So he rocks his Roland V-Drums and does a beautiful job of The Killers' Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine. Note his bass drum patterns - spot-on, dude! JB

Quill - The Ultimate '80s Metal Show BandQuill are an Australian metal band - the 'ultimate,' they say - and here they are performing Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. The guitarist doesn't swing his axe around his neck, he does put his foot on his monitor - the 'ultimate' '80s rock move. And for good measure, at the end, both he and the (female!) lead singer rest their feet on the drum riser. This is known in rock circles as 'double ultimate." JB